Making Small Steps Toward Big Savings
With February right around the corner, it’s time to start looking at your February Budget and get it set up. As you’re getting your budget and financial goals for February set up, don’t forget about these categories. Spring Sports February is the time our region’s AYSO starts creating the teams for the spring. I… [Read More]
February’s meal plan was based around one thing… trying to get my freezer and pantry cleaned out. Throughout December and January, I’ve planned out the meals and bought the food. As the last few weeks have passed, my pantry got fuller and fuller, and not all of the meals that I planned for were made…. [Read More]
When it comes to paying off debt, the first question most people what answered is which method is better at paying off their debts. Is it debt snowball? Or is it debt avalanche? Which method will be better for you during your debt free journey? The answer may surprise you! Debt Snowball The term debt… [Read More]
Way back when Bookworm turned 1, I started making the kids their birthday cakes. It was a wonderful, frugal way that I could do something special for their birthdays, and put all those summers spent as a child with 4H cake decorating classes to good use. When they were younger, it was really simple to… [Read More]
Before we started looking at our debt repayment scenarios, we would eat out often. Hubs would go out with some coworkers for lunches, once a month we would go out to eat. Needless to say, it got expensive. One of the first items to go when we were trying to find areas to cut back… [Read More]
One of my goals for 2017 was to get better at managing this thing called life. With the kids getting older, motherhood was entering a whole new phase for me. I wasn’t set to their nursing and diaper schedules anymore. I had 7 soccer practices and 3 games each week to keep up with. As… [Read More]
More often than not, the best recipes I make come when I end up winging it. You know… those times when you seem to just throw everything and the kitchen sink in the pan, and it comes out tasting so much better than when you followed the recipe for a 5 star restaurant meal to… [Read More]
Here it is… my last debt summary for 2017. If you saw my goals post, then you’ll already know how much we paid off in 2017, and our new total debt paid since we started our journey back in 2014. But I wanted to break down how we did in December on paying our debts…. [Read More]
If you’ve been here before, you’ll know that I’m a huge fan of monthly meal planning. I tried weekly and it just didn’t work for us. We got stuck in a boring rut and fell back on to the same meals week after week. Monthly planning gives me a full view to see if we’re… [Read More]
Welcome to 2018! I hope the end of 2017 treated you well! For me, this past December was an interesting one. For the last half of the month, I had a hard time focusing on anything specific. The kids were coming home with illness after illness, and when my sinus congestion started, I thought I caught… [Read More]
